The UC SAREP cover crop database, first released in 1999, provides detailed information on over 40 cover crop species commonly grown in California. The database helps growers understand each species' unique characteristics, including planting requirements, management details, nutrient contributions, and pest interactions, enabling informed decisions about cover crop integration.

This webpage from the Agricultural Marketing Resource Center (AgMRC) outlines USDA certified organic beef production, including federal standards, animal welfare requirements, and permitted management practices. It addresses market size, pricing premiums, and sales channels, along with certification requirements, farm planning obligations, and key resources for further guidance.

In this webinar, produced by the Land Connection, hear directly from organic grain farmers navigating the realities of transitioning, managing, and marketing their crops. The farmer panel shares what’s worked, what hasn’t, and what they’ve learned along the way. This session was designed to be honest, practical, and useful no matter where you are on your organic journey.

Basil fusarium wilt is a seed-borne disease that can severely reduce basil yields. The biggest concern, however, is that the pathogen can persist in the soil for ten or more years preventing the future use of the land for basil production.…

This workbook, produced by the Midwest Organic & Sustainable Education Service (MOSES, now Marbleseed), provides recordkeeping templates that can be used for both organic certification and crop insurance reporting – a valuable way to optimize your recordkeeping time when you are participating in both of these programs.

This webpage from the Agricultural Marketing Resource Center (AgMRC) covers U.S. organic lamb production under USDA standards, including certification requirements, animal welfare rules, and prohibited inputs. It addresses 2021 production and sales data, processing and marketing channels, and competitive dynamics with international producers from New Zealand and Australia.

This webinar, produced by the Community Alliance with Family Farmers (CAFF), introduces high level sales concepts, from determining the ideal customer, creating a value proposition, and preparing the product. It will outline several top marketing channels, and will discuss food safety considerations, packaging, insurance, payment terms, and logistics for each.

Retaining shareholders is a difficult problem for many farmers operating Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) programs, and the time and energy spent recruiting new shareholders can be a strain, especially in regions where the CSA "traditi…

Check out this Organic Crop Insurance resource kit from the Organic Agronomy Training Service (OATS).  In it, you'll find a wide variety of helpful resources, including links to a short course, a podcast series, useful factsheets, articles, and more.

Explore the full National Farmer Buyer’s Landscape Toolkit, produced by the Rodale Institute and the Organic Trade Association, to access tools that support national organic market development, supply chain resilience, and long-term farm viability.

Learn how to effectively communicate your farm's availability to wholesale buyers in this virtual workshop. Whether you're new to wholesale or looking to improve your buyer relationships, this session will help you create clear, professional availability lists and marketing materials that make it easy for buyers to say yes.

The objectives of this project were to: 1. Evaluate several different cover crops and cover crop mixtures for quick establishment, contribution of N for subsequent crops, minimal immobilization of N after cover crop kill, susceptibility to…